I have written before about this accident hotspot: here and here.  The best solution would be to reduce the speed limit on the A25 when it passes through Oxted down to 30 mph (and to enforce this if necessary). Given the way the presence of the van altered motorists’ behaviour, I would be most surprised if the police research found the need to do anything about this busy intersection!

Here are a couple of reverse views of Greenwich: looking up at the Observatory from the National Maritime Museum and then looking down in the opposite direction with Canary Wharf in the background.

Hat tip: BoingBoing.

There is also the occasional rude and inconsiderate motorist racing too fast down country lanes.

Just after this photo was taken I discovered that I had forgotten to bring a banana and had to resort to scrumping an apple (that was hanging over a farm fence).

Link: Gmap pedometer.

This is almost the highest point of my route and I only have one more ‘serious’ climb on my way back into Oxted.

My work trip next week is postponed so I should be able to get back into the swing of things again. Right now I feel a bit unfit.

Heaven is a restaurant where the chef is French, the manager is German, the waiter is English and your eating companions are Italian. Hell is the same place with the same people, but they occupy different roles. The chef is English, the manager is Italian, the waiter is French and your eating companions are German.

The sculpture in the photograph above is in the general vicinity of Potsdammer Platz. I ate dinner this evening next to the sculpture, at a restaurant which is located somewhere between heaven and hell.

They do it properly here in Berlin. Here are some of the notable differences with Surrey and London:

1. The lane doesn’t end or suspend when an intersection or bus stop is reached. The cyclist can continue safely at these features along a clearly defined route.
2. The available space on the road and pavement is allocated fairly to car, cyclist and pedestrian. Each group is catered for in the same proportion even where the road and pavement narrows, such as on a bridge.
3. At the traffic lights there are three phases and separate lights for car, bicycle and pedestrian.
4. The cycle lanes are safe and widely used.

Of course some parts of London are worse than others.

Someone has put it in on display in my hotel in Berlin.

I am on my way to Berlin to run some workshops for a client. I may post intermittently this week. Or not.